![]() … Your obligation is to know your objects and to steadily, inexorably darken and deepen them. As a student of the inestimable Gordon Lish, Schutt’s early works are marked by her use of his ideas of ‘the swerve’ and ‘consecution.’ In explaining these techniques to The Believer, she has said that “ach sentence is extruded from the previous sentence. The author of three novels and two other short story collections, Schutt is known for the intensity of her fiction and the unique quality of her sentences. ![]() ![]() The stories in her latest collection, Pure Hollywood, are inhabited mostly by upper middle-class women in legitimate crisis, and Schutt showcases the turmoil experienced by these women in some of the most innovative modern prose out there. “In all of their iterations,” Schutt has said, “the privileged… are a source of wonder and grief.” And she attends carefully to this fruitful garden of characters, wary not to stake her narratives on slight beefs. Read through a few interviews with Christine Schutt and at one point or another, in one way or another, she will say that when it comes to writing, she goes to “uncomfortable places.” Her explorations of ‘uncomfortable places’ aren’t necessarily to exotic locales, but into the hearts of people who belong to a privileged class yet cannot escape the toxicity of their unnerving desires, their impossible demands, their unreliable observations. ![]()
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